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(King County, WA) Gallery4Culture is delighted to present a solo exhibition by multimedia installation artist Britta Johnson.Titled,The Hover, the artwork is a series of looping, stop-motion animated videos shot in different outdoor locations in Washington State. The artworks are formal explorations of gesture, texture and time, incorporating natural and manmade materials and movements in space. The projections vary in size (mural scale to intimate) and manner of display. Some of the videos place the viewer in an unusual or precarious relationship with the imagery; all share a common theme of natural processes (bubbling, shedding, accreting, etc.) happening in an unnatural or uncommon way. The artist works with themes of omniscience, omnipresence, immortality, what is fleeting, what is contained, what is regular, what is irregular, what is human, and what is natural.

The production of this series was supported with funding from Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs.

About the Artist: For the past decade, film/installation artist Britta Johnson has worked as a free-lance director, stop-motion animator, and editor. Johnson is a graduate of Carleton College in Northfield, MN; she lives and works in Seattle.

About Gallery4CultureGallery4Culture is located within 4Culture offices at 101 Prefontaine Place S., Seattle, at the corner of Third and Prefontaine. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (closed weekends and government holidays); there is no admission charge. For more information about the gallery program, visit the website http://galleries.4culture.org/ or call 206.296.8674.ON E4C

Evertt Beidler:

Moves Manager

Salise Hughes:

The Perils of Boating

4Culture is pleased to welcome back Evertt Beidler and Salise Hughes to e4c. New works, selected by a peer-panel in 2011, will be added to e4c’s rotation for the next 12 months.

Evertt Beidler: Moves Manager

Beidler’s work utilizes the production of sculpture and live action as a means of interfacing the realm of the imaginary with the realm of the real. Content for his work, including Moves Manager, is derived from personal experience and employs the traditional format of the “self-portrait” as a means of telling stories that are autobiographical in nature. Humor, elements of film, performance, public art and functional sculpture are all present in Moves Manager.

About the Artist:Evertt Beidler is a multi-disciplinary artist currently residing in Portland, Oregon. His work is included in private collections across the United States, the permanent collection of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and is on public display at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers in Cairo, Illinois, which is the first public commission of his career. Evertt is working on a series of artworks that incorporate video, installation, sculpture, and performance in his studio in Southwest Portland.

For e4c, experimental media artist, Salise Hughes has created a new four-channel video work entitled, The Perils of Boating, a media installation based on reedited, manipulated footage from Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, a 1927 American silent film directed by German film director F. W. Murnau. In 1989, this film was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry. Hughes’ interpretation offers scratched and eroded footage of two humans on a boat, ravaged by time, the weather and themselves.

About the Artist: Salise Hughes is a Seattle-based visual artist who began making experimental films in 2005. She studied visual art at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and at the San Francisco Art Institute. Some of the venues her films have shown include International Film Festival Rotterdam; l’Alternative, Barcelona; Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Ann Arbor Film Festival; and Seattle International Film Festival.

E4c consists of four, large LCD monitors adjacent to Gallery4Culture at 101 Prefontaine Pl S, Seattle WA 98104 at the corner of Third and Prefontaine. e4c exhibits can be viewed from the street 7:00 am – 10:00 pm, daily. e4c has received generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts

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4Culture is a unique integration of the arts, heritage, preservation and public art; committed to advancing community through culture. Public exhibitions and performances, public art, preservation of significant sites and interpretation of local history deepen our connections to the places in which we live and work. 4Culture stimulates cultural activity and enhances the assets that distinguish a community as vibrant, unique and authentic.

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